Tonight PBS premieres its new miniseries Great Yellowstone Thaw, a visually stunning event showing wildlife under fire, sometimes literally, in Yellowstone National Park. This physical landmark is a seismically-active 3,500-square mile sprawl of wilderness that is a collapsed volcano at its core. The enormous park sits in the western states of Montana, Idaho and mostly in Wyoming, and is replete with canyons, rivers, forests, scalding hot springs, and geysers, including the famous Old Faithful. It’s also home to hundreds of animal species like coyotes, wolves, Great Gray Owls, bighorn sheep, bears, bison, elk, and antelope. Host Kirk Johnson serves as our...read more...
- 6/21/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
A lawyer for Dr. Michael Schulenberg says that despite what recently unsealed court documents claim, her client “never directly prescribed opioids to Prince, nor did he ever prescribe opioids to any other person with the intent that they would be given to Prince.”
The legendary musician, who died of an opioid overdose on April 21 of last year, was back in the headlines Monday after recently unsealed court documents provided more clues about the circumstances surrounding his death.
According to a search warrant application submitted in September of last year, the Minnesota physician admitted to a Carver County Sheriff’s detective...
The legendary musician, who died of an opioid overdose on April 21 of last year, was back in the headlines Monday after recently unsealed court documents provided more clues about the circumstances surrounding his death.
According to a search warrant application submitted in September of last year, the Minnesota physician admitted to a Carver County Sheriff’s detective...
- 4/18/2017
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd
- PEOPLE.com
Newly unsealed documents offer even more insight into Prince's accidental overdose nearly a year ago.
Et obtained court documents on Monday in the death investigation of the singer, and the results of the search warrant shows that bottles of opioid painkillers were found throughout Prince's Paisley Park compound in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
Some of the bottles were prescribed to Prince's longtime friend, Kirk Johnson, which Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg claimed was done to protect Prince's privacy. According to the documents, a suitcase labeled with the name tag “Peter Bravestrong” -- an alias investigators say Prince sometimes used -- was found containing multiple pill bottles in Johnson’s name, as well as the lyrics to "U Got the Look," thought to be in Prince's handwriting.
More: Prince Left Behind $25 Million in Real Estate, 67 Gold Bars
Johnson told authorities that he was unaware that Prince had an addiction to painkillers, but according...
Et obtained court documents on Monday in the death investigation of the singer, and the results of the search warrant shows that bottles of opioid painkillers were found throughout Prince's Paisley Park compound in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
Some of the bottles were prescribed to Prince's longtime friend, Kirk Johnson, which Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg claimed was done to protect Prince's privacy. According to the documents, a suitcase labeled with the name tag “Peter Bravestrong” -- an alias investigators say Prince sometimes used -- was found containing multiple pill bottles in Johnson’s name, as well as the lyrics to "U Got the Look," thought to be in Prince's handwriting.
More: Prince Left Behind $25 Million in Real Estate, 67 Gold Bars
Johnson told authorities that he was unaware that Prince had an addiction to painkillers, but according...
- 4/17/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Newly unsealed documents relating to the death of music legend Prince reveal that the musician, who died April 21, 2016 of an overdose of the opioid fentanyl, had medication prescribed to him under the name of his bodyguard, Kirk Johnson. An affidavit from Det. Christine Wagner noted that Dr. Michael Schulenberg, who was present at Paisley Park when detectives arrived on the day of Prince’s death, “admitted in a statement to Detective Chris Nelson that he had prescribed Prince a prescription for oxycodone the same day as the emergency plane landing but put the prescription in Kirk Johnson’s name for.
- 4/17/2017
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
As the first anniversary of Prince‘s shocking death approaches, newly unsealed court documents reveal that a doctor admitted to prescribing the singer opioids under a false name.
Dr. Michael Schulenberg said he prescribed Prince – whose April 21, 2016 death was ruled as an opioid overdose – Oxycodone under his bodyguard Kirk Johnson’s name in order to preserve his privacy, according to multiple search warrants executed last year.
At Paisley Park – the singer’s Minnesota compound – a suitcase labeled with the name tag “Peter Bravestrong” was found containing multiple pill bottles in Johnson’s name, according to the documents. The prescription bottles...
Dr. Michael Schulenberg said he prescribed Prince – whose April 21, 2016 death was ruled as an opioid overdose – Oxycodone under his bodyguard Kirk Johnson’s name in order to preserve his privacy, according to multiple search warrants executed last year.
At Paisley Park – the singer’s Minnesota compound – a suitcase labeled with the name tag “Peter Bravestrong” was found containing multiple pill bottles in Johnson’s name, according to the documents. The prescription bottles...
- 4/17/2017
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
Judith Hill, who had been working closely with Prince for the last two years, was one of just two people who were accompanying him on the flight that resulted in an emergency landing the week before his death. Judith Hill On Prince Hill, 32, and Prince’s friend and aide Kirk Johnson, were traveling back to Minneapolis, […]
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- 6/22/2016
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
Prince's protégé has broken her silence. In an interview with The New York Times published Tuesday, musician Judith Hill revealed that she was with the late singer when his plane was forced to make an emergency landing Apr. 15, just six days before his death. Including the pilot, Hill was one of four people on the plane, the others being Prince and his aide Kirk Johnson. Hill remembers sharing dinner with Prince when he went unconscious. She alerted the pilot so they could make an emergency landing in Moline, Ill. "We knew it was only a matter of time; we had to get down," Hill recalled. "We didn't have anything on the plane to help him." Eighteen minutes after landing, the ambulance took...
- 6/22/2016
- E! Online
Judith Hill was more than Prince's protégé. The "Purple Rain" singer shared an intimate friendship with the 32-year-old, as he mentored Hill, assisting with her career - helping her out of her record deal with a major label, allowing her to open shows for him, and placing her album in a local Minnesota record store; where it was to be treated as his own album would be, Hill told the New York Times. Careful not to describe their relationship as romantic, the singer added that she had a deep connection with the 57-year-old music icon, who died in April.
- 6/22/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarane
- PEOPLE.com
Judith Hill was more than Prince's protégé. The "Purple Rain" singer shared an intimate friendship with the 32-year-old, as he mentored Hill, assisting with her career - helping her out of her record deal with a major label, allowing her to open shows for him, and placing her album in a local Minnesota record store; where it was to be treated, as his own album would be Hill told the New York Times. Careful not to describe their relationship as romantic, the singer added that she had a deep connection with the 57-year-old music icon, who died in April.
- 6/22/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarane
- PEOPLE.com
New information has surfaced regarding the death of music icon Prince. According to details surfaced by Minnesota's Star Tribune, responding paramedics say the Grammy winner was likely dead for at least six hours before his body was found in an elevator at his Paisley Park estate in Minnesota. As People previously reported, sheriff's deputies received a 9:43 a.m. for medical attention - shortly after assistant Meron Berkure and longtime friend Kirk Johnson discovered his body. Less than 25 minutes later, Prince was pronounced dead. Although an autopsy for the singer has been completed, a cause of death for the 57-year-old...
- 5/21/2016
- by Dave Quinn, @NineDaves
- PEOPLE.com
Washington, D.C. — Fanboy favorites from Star Trek star William Shatner and The X-Files creator Chris Carter to Syfy’s hit series 12 Monkeys and Deadpool director Tim Miller are squarely in the spotlight for Smithsonian magazine’s fourth annual The Future Is Here Festival™, a three-day event highlighting the most advanced thinking in science, technology, space, art and engineering from a dazzling array of experts, visionaries and noted science-lovers.
The Festival kicks off on Friday, April 22nd at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Sidney Harman Hall with an exclusive ticketed evening event featuring Shatner, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek; a conversation with Carter, fresh off the triumphant return of The X-Files to television; and an exclusive glimpse into the thrilling second season of Syfy’s hit series 12 Monkeys (premieres April 18) with special advance footage presented by stars Aaron Stanford and Amanda Schull and executive producer Terry Matalas.
The Festival kicks off on Friday, April 22nd at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Sidney Harman Hall with an exclusive ticketed evening event featuring Shatner, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek; a conversation with Carter, fresh off the triumphant return of The X-Files to television; and an exclusive glimpse into the thrilling second season of Syfy’s hit series 12 Monkeys (premieres April 18) with special advance footage presented by stars Aaron Stanford and Amanda Schull and executive producer Terry Matalas.
- 4/14/2016
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Giving UK horror fans yet another reason to attend their scare-packed festival, the fine folks at Film4 FrightFest have announced their short film lineup that features over thirty shorts, including the cannibalistic wrestling tale, El Gigante:
Press Release: "Film4 FrightFest 2015 has expanded its Short Film Showcase event, with three strands and over thirty shorts from around the world, including eleven World Premieres and seven European Premieres. With films from thirteen countries, this is the most diverse and exciting shorts event yet programmed.
Highlights include the London premiere of actress Karen Gillan’s intense directorial debut Coward, and the UK premiere of Shevenge, a darkly funny tale of revenge, directed by Buffy The Vampire Slayer alum Amber Benson. Local FrightFest alumni will also be returning: screenwriter and director James Moran is back with screams and laughter in Ghosting, and Dan Auty brings us nostalgia and magic children in his new...
Press Release: "Film4 FrightFest 2015 has expanded its Short Film Showcase event, with three strands and over thirty shorts from around the world, including eleven World Premieres and seven European Premieres. With films from thirteen countries, this is the most diverse and exciting shorts event yet programmed.
Highlights include the London premiere of actress Karen Gillan’s intense directorial debut Coward, and the UK premiere of Shevenge, a darkly funny tale of revenge, directed by Buffy The Vampire Slayer alum Amber Benson. Local FrightFest alumni will also be returning: screenwriter and director James Moran is back with screams and laughter in Ghosting, and Dan Auty brings us nostalgia and magic children in his new...
- 7/30/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
If you taught people about dinosaurs in real life, how would you feel about the "Jurassic Park" franchise?
You could see it from either side -- appreciate how much the franchise has done to put paleontology in the zeitgeist or deep sigh over how inaccurate the dino depictions can be. With "Jurassic World" breaking box office records, The Washington Post talked to several paleontologists to get their takes on the dinosaurs, and the folks they talked to were very supportive and excited about the franchise. As one expert put it, "These films bridge the gap between dusty fossils in a museum drawer and the public, who are hungry to know more."
However, that's not to say they completely ignored the inaccuracies, and experts pinpointed two main issues for criticism: dinosaurs' lack of feathers and their depiction as noisier than a frat house on Friday night. Here's part of that conversation,...
You could see it from either side -- appreciate how much the franchise has done to put paleontology in the zeitgeist or deep sigh over how inaccurate the dino depictions can be. With "Jurassic World" breaking box office records, The Washington Post talked to several paleontologists to get their takes on the dinosaurs, and the folks they talked to were very supportive and excited about the franchise. As one expert put it, "These films bridge the gap between dusty fossils in a museum drawer and the public, who are hungry to know more."
However, that's not to say they completely ignored the inaccuracies, and experts pinpointed two main issues for criticism: dinosaurs' lack of feathers and their depiction as noisier than a frat house on Friday night. Here's part of that conversation,...
- 6/15/2015
- by Gina Carbone
- Moviefone
Chicago – In a situation that has happened in many U.S. households over the last ten years, the new film “The Girls on Liberty Street” explores the days leading up to a family shipping on of their own to the Army. The twist is that the potential soldier is female, and the reaction to this in the story is rich and nuanced. The film was produced, written and directed by John A. Rangel, and produced by David Rokos.
Brianna Zepeda is Leaving Home in ‘The Girls on Liberty Street’
Photo credit: Chicago International Film Festival
The film was entered in the new directors competition, remarkable for a local (Aurora, Illinois) filmmaker and a micro budget film. There are so many personal commonalities in the film as to the reaction to the girl, portrayed by Brianna Zepeda, and the story offers a unique insight into the variety of human souls who...
Brianna Zepeda is Leaving Home in ‘The Girls on Liberty Street’
Photo credit: Chicago International Film Festival
The film was entered in the new directors competition, remarkable for a local (Aurora, Illinois) filmmaker and a micro budget film. There are so many personal commonalities in the film as to the reaction to the girl, portrayed by Brianna Zepeda, and the story offers a unique insight into the variety of human souls who...
- 10/24/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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